News Recap: Lions Gate Entertainment Corp, Alaska Air Group, Walgreen Company, Rite Aid Corporation

Dallas, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/14/2013 -- Marketbuzzreport.com, an investment community with a special focus on updating investors with recent news on the U.S. stock market, issues news alert on the following stocks:-

Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (USA) (NYSE:LGF) shares jumped 4.26% and closed at $23.23. The company, on Feb. 12, reported a quarterly profit that beat analysts’ estimates. Net income was $37.8 million, or 27 cents a share, in the third quarter ended Dec. 31, versus a loss of $1.4 million, or 1 cent, a year earlier. Sales more than doubled to $743.6 million, beating estimates of $719.5 million. Profit exceeded the 24-cent average of analysts’ projections.

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Alaska Air Group, Inc.(NYSE:ALK) shares jumped 4.26% and closed at $9.46 after ALK‘s stock had its “buy” rating reiterated by investment analysts at Cowen in a note issued to investors yesterday. Additionally, analysts at UBS AG raised their price target on shares of Alaska Air from $60.00 to $70.00 in a research note to investors on Mar. 8. They now have a “buy” rating on the stock.

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Walgreen Company (NYSE:WAG) shares gained 4.24% to $42.78 after the company yesterday reported February sales of $5.75 billion, a decrease of 2.2% from $5.88 billion for the same month in fiscal 2012. Total front-end sales decreased 3.1 percent compared with the same month in fiscal 2012, and were flat when excluding last February's leap day. All comparable store sales and comparable prescription figures below compare the first 28 days in February 2012 to the 28 days in February 2013.

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Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE:RAD) shares climbed 4.17% to $1.75. The company on Feb.27, announced the two winners of the 2012 Favorite Pharmacy Team Member contest are a pharmacy technician from Ada, Ohio, and a long-time customer of the Birmingham, Mich., store. Both were selected at random from more than 13,000 entries in the annual contest honoring Rite Aid's pharmacy team members for their commitment to customer care and service.

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